Maria BC – Hyaline (Album Review)
Sensory processing sensitivity (SPS) is a personality trait involving “a deeper cognitive processing of physical, social, and emotional stimuli”. Someone with high SPS is known as a Highly Sensitive Person…
August, Yours Truly – Performance of a Lifetime (Album Review)
August, Yours Truly is the moniker of one Taylor Elliott from Niagra Falls, Ontario. On their latest album, “Performance of a Lifetime”, Elliott lays every ounce of their being on…
Time Room – Something New (Album Review)
Hailing from Minneapolis, Time Room are a post punk outfit who use frantically changing time signatures, a brash and bright guitar sound, and sense of carefree immediacy to create wonderfully…
Interview: BallinaPunx release “The Last Gig at Emmett’s” by Shithatt
Ballina, County Mayo, population ten thousand, used to be the biggest town in the county. In the early twentieth century, that distinction was transferred to the growing Castlebar, some forty…
Evan J Cartwright – bit by bit (Album Review)
Birds and bells sound for different reasons. Where birds sing for territorial and nesting purposes, bells knell for the passing of time. Yet they are both auditory fixtures of our…
Interview: Jane Bruckner
Jane Bruckner is a Nova Scotian ambient musician and visual artist whose economic sense of environment imbues her work with a refined edge. Inspired by the artist Agnes Martin, her…
Hulm – Do you have a minute? (Album Review)
Given that this collection was released on April 1st, one might mistake it for a practical joke. A general lack of seriousness is communicated throughout, from the comically absurd cover…
Kyiv by Hania Rani
This touching release from Polish composer and pianist Hania Rani was recently released in aid of the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine. Somber and compelling notes play over mournful strings and…